Senior Engineer, Android/Remote

About the job

Description

Surprise.com is on a mission to help people make a positive impact on themselves, their teams, and their communities. Our flagship product, Surprise for Teams™, is the world’s first and only SuccessOS™. Surprise for Teams makes it fun and irresistible to perform better, which creates a positive, long-lasting impact on people and their organizations.

What will you be doing?

• Making our product better, stronger, and faster;
• Working with our backend team to zero in on the APIs you need;
• Working with our design team to implement a world-class UX on our mobile platform;
• Helping our product team to establish what and when we need to ship on mobile;
• Keeping up to date on the latest features available for Android and deciding what can be utilized to make your code wonderful;
• Shipping the best code you can and helping other developers through code review and mentorship.

What we are looking for?

• Strong knowledge of Android development with 5+ years of experience;
• Android development experience in Kotlin;
• Android development experience in Java;
• Experience consuming RESTful APIs with Retrofit2;
• Experience in managing Room databases;
• Knowledge of kotlin dependencies injection framework;
• Experience with kotlin-coroutines;
• Experience with android view models;
• Experience with android live data;
• Experience with navigation component;
• Experience with automated unit and user story testing;
• A collaborative mindset with strong communication ability;
• A creative mind that can help us discover new ways to apply technology to the problems that we are solving.

What skills will come in handy?

• Experience with libgdx;
• A background in Computer Science, or at least an understanding of algorithms;
• Knowledge of how to implement the designs that you and the design team build;
• Google play distribution and app testing;
• Experience building React native apps;
• Experience building complicated custom view and animations;
• Experience in video data managing using Android api or external libraries;
• Experience working within a geographically dispersed team;
• Demonstrated ability to expertly manage conflicting priorities;
• High-bandwidth, high-energy, competitive, and creative individual;
• Driven to outperform; dedicated to self-improvement.